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February 1938
FILM INDIA
der of success far ahead of others. His make-up in the old man's role was not convincing.
Yakub has given his usual good performance and this time he puts some more spice into it by giving a song which was quite well sung. In fact, taking a comparative view of things and considering that the girls have sweeter voices and better chances than men, Yakub could be said to have sung the best of the whole lot.
Sankatha was quite forceful and convincing. Siddiqui seemed to fit in with the silly part. Mirza was bad. His stained teeth were revolting. Pande was quite good. Kayamali was no good. Sitara, amongst the girls topped the show by giving a very pleasing performance with a bit of music and plenty of lusty actions. She provided the sex side of the pictine. Bibbo looked haggard and a misfit in the role of a princess
RAMCHANDRA MARATHE & PAR SHURAM give marvellous performances in "Gopal Krishna ", a Prabhat
Picture.
from foreign ones, are marvellously taken.
Recording: (By Chandrakant Pandya). Quite good.
Laboratory: Quite nice.
Editing: (By Shamsuddin Kadri). Appropriate and rather enterprising. The war scenes are slightly erratic.
Direction: (By Mehboob). As we have remarked before, pictures of this type are the forte of Mr. Mehboob. He seems to revel in them and gives his best every time and we still think it will not be wise for him to handle a social picture which requires greater flights of imagination and psychological understanding. Pictorially the director has achieved much in this picture and we should think that he is to-day the best man in Sagar knowing the pictorial value of a picture. In some of the scenes he has used the camera to good purpose. Had it not been for the in
herent lack of development in the original scenario we could have called the picture a better effort in direction.
As it is Mr. Mehboob himself is responsible for these weak links.
Performances: Kumar is easily the best. And this is his best picture since he arrived in Bombay from Calcutta. We have always said that this artiste had a lot of talent in him, but it was unfortunate that no one could make use of it. It was left to Mehboob to do so. In a double role Kumar has given a very convincing performance. His dialogues are superb. We however do not approve of the way he tilts his face up and distends his nostrils. He should try to check this habit. As an actor Kumar is easily the best man Sagar has got today, including all the old timers and we hope that if favouritism does not step in, Kumar will step out on the lad